He may be good with rockets and electric cars, but don't turn to Elon Musk for public health predictions.
Musk hasn't detailed the changes he intends to make at Twitter, though he wasted no time in. But he has said he wants to make Twitter a haven for free speech. He's said he disagrees with the platform's decision to ban ex-President Donald Trump for inciting violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
That same month, he tweeted that children were largely immune from the virus and predicted that cases would soon disappear.This fall,when he went on Twitter to float a potential peace deal. Under Musk's plan, Russia would get to keep Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, and Ukraine would have to drop its plans to join NATO.
Stern singled out Musk's comments about Ukraine as particularly concerning. “This is not going to be pretty," he said. Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world’s richest man tweeted a photo of Bill Gates and used a crude sexual term while making a joke about his belly.
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